Preparation of medicinal raw materials.
This plant prefers to grow in wet places, so to collect medicinal raw materials, you need to go to the coast of rivers or lakes. Usually they harvest roots and rhizomes, but the best grass is best stored in the early spring (if the plant blooms for more than one year). Young plants are best collected in autumn.
Stock up with medicinal raw materials will not be difficult. After the roots and rhizomes are collected, they must be rinsed with cool water, then cut, placed on a cloth and covered with sunlight. When the plant dries, you can safely use it for various recipes of folk medicine.
Composition.
If you consider the composition of medicinal angelica, it is worth noting that it is very valuable due to essential oils, wax and resins, tannins, organic acids (angelic, acetic, valeric). Acids have a therapeutic effect on the cardiovascular and nervous system.
Medical properties.
Angelica officinalis is used to relieve inflammation, accelerate sweating and urinary excretion, enhance the effect of treatment for bronchitis and laryngitis.
The prepared infusion of medicinal angelica is well used as an expectorant (if you have an airway disease or a long cough). To prepare the infusion it is necessary to take 2 tablespoons with chopped roots and pour them 2 cups of boiling water. Next, the broth should be infused for about fifteen minutes and cool. Take the drug should be on a tablespoon three times a day.
Some of the medicinal properties of medicinal angelica are used to treat the gastrointestinal system (with gastritis, poisoning, stomach disorders, intoxication). To cure such diseases, use a decoction prepared from the roots of the plant. For this, the roots are ground, then poured with boiling water, then wait until the water boils, and boil for about 10 minutes. The resulting remedy should be consumed 2 to 3 tablespoons (allows to restore the stomach and acidity level, get rid of colic, cholecystitis, colitis, as well as inflammation of the pancreas). Thanks to the decoction it is possible to overcome insomnia and restore the nervous system.
Angelica: medicinal recipes.
There are a number of recipes that allow you to prepare several useful medicines from the herb. For example, take 15 grams of dried herb angelica, fill it with cold water (always clean!) And we will insist 8 - 9 hours. Then the resulting product is filtered. Take necessary for 100 ml. Infusion is good for people suffering from diseases of the bile and bladder, kidneys. The drug can be taken as a sedative in attacks of hysteria or nervous disorders. Use the infusion of herb angelica can and with various inflammatory processes occurring in the mouth. You should just rinse your mouth to eliminate the focus of infection.
Fresh juice of medicinal angelica also has healing properties and allows you to remove toothache or pain in the ears. Thanks to medicinal angelica you can get rid of heartburn. The method of preparation consists in the following: it is necessary to take the ground seeds and the roots of Angelica, pour boiling water. Leave to stand for 20 minutes and then take it inside. You can also mix fresh angelica juice and potato juice, which will be most effective.
Once a medicinal angelica, whose properties are truly miraculous, was used to treat epidemiological diseases known as measles, typhus and scarlet fever. To cure them, decoctions were used from the roots of the plant.
From angelica you can prepare various tinctures for alcohol. Preparation consists in the following: it is necessary to take a spoon with crushed roots, to fill with alcohol and to insist for ten days. Such alcoholic infusion should be used for grinding with rheumatism, gout, or to relieve muscle fatigue and muscle pain. It is necessary to wipe those parts of the body in which pain and discomfort are felt.
Use medicinal angelica can and as a food additive to various dishes due to a perfectly pronounced aroma, as well as a sweetish bitter taste. For example, you can add seeds to canned fish and meat dishes, as well as to give flavor to vodka. If the roots of Angelica to grind to a powder, then it will find a good application for baking, as well as for strewing dishes, which include roasted meat and fish. Roots are best suited for soups and first courses (roots that have been growing for many years).
Attention: be careful!
Special care should be taken when working with medicinal angelica, so as not to get light burns if it gets on the skin. After when the work with the plant is completely finished, it is necessary to wash your hands, so that there is no irritation.